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Cultural Anthropology Chapter 13
Ethnicity, Race, and Racism
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
05/04/2013

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An ethnic group
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is a group that has been incorporated into a state through conquest or migration, that maintains distinctive cultural and/or linguistic traditions, and that has a sense of a separate, shared, and age-old identity.
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Biological races
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are etic populations in which several genes occur together with distinctive frequencies over many generations.
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Social races
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are assumed to have a biological basis but are in fact culturally constructed. Social race is an emic construct that can be used politically to justify prejudice and stratification.
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Racism
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is the belief that the cultural and intellectual characteristics of a population are linked to its biological racial character, with the notion that some races are inherently superior to others.
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Racialism
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is a relatively benign form of making racial distinctions, such as skin color and facial characteristics, intended for reference purposes.
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